CAVE-STG

(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/180/1712823akaikatanashinsu.jpg)

CAVE 08/2010 (PCB) ~ 05/2011 (X360)

Welcome to the Akai Katana high score thread. Covered modes are Arcade, Shin, and Zetsu.

Rules: no continues, and default live stock, difficulty, and extends.

Please submit your scores in the following format:
MODE - CHARACTER
SCORE - NAME - STAGE [LxX, BxX for ALL scores] - PCB/X360 (for Arcade only)

LxX for ALL scores indicates how many spare lives you finished the game with - please also indicate if your rightmost lifebar has damage in it. BxX indicates how many bombs you have left when you clear the game.


Akai Katana

Kinsenka (Sumire & Tsubaki)

Quote
1.  301,775,117 - iconoclast - ALL [Lx3 (w/ some damage), Bx0] - X360
2.  255,393,090 - EOJ - ALL [Lx1, Bx0] - X360
3.  192,692,394 - SPZ - ALL [Lx1, Bx2] - X360
4.
5.

Kochouran (Kikyou & Botan)

Quote
1.  308,612,760 - iconoclast - ALL [Lx4 (w/ some damage), Bx0] - X360
2.  274,372,383 - EOJ - ALL [Lx1 (w/ some damage), Bx0] - X360
3.  129,952,706 - Some Mist - Stage 5 (Boss) - X360
4.    87,173,686 - HVL - Stage 4 (Boss) - X360
5.

Yaezakura (Suzuran & Shion)

Quote
1.  369,215,790 - iconoclast - ALL [Lx4 (w/ some damage), Bx0] - X360
2.  358,151,625 - -S.L- - ALL (L/B ?) - Yaezakura - PCB
3.  350,852,350 - EOJ - ALL [Lx3 (w/ some damage), Bx0] - X360
4.  275,128,654 - dan76 - ALL [Lx1, Bx0] - X360
5.

Akai Katana Shin

Kinsenka (Sumire & Tsubaki)

Quote
1. 2,513,583,324 - iconoclast - ALL
2.     269,047,240 - fuse - Stage 5
3.
4.
5.

Kochouran (Kikyou & Botan)

Quote
1. 3,117,198,720 - iconoclast - ALL
2. 1,677,021,687 - Icarus - Stage 6 (Boss)
3.
4.
5.

Yaezakura (Suzuran & Shion)

Quote
1. 2,291,700,693 - iconoclast - ALL
2.
3.
4.
5.

Akai Katana Zetsu

Kinsenka (Sumire & Tsubaki)

Quote
1.  881,441,947 - iconoclast - ALL
2.  551,768,279 - SPZ - Stage 6
3.
4.
5.

Kochouran (Kikyou & Botan)

Quote
1.  814,834,031 - EOJ - Stage 7 (Boss)
2.  795,737,397 - iconoclast - ALL
3.
4.
5.

Yaezakura (Suzuran & Shion)

Quote
1.  829,889,399 - iconoclast - ALL
2.
3.
4.
5.

Let's get this going. Any improvement ideas are more than welcome; I haven't got the game yet so there must be things I'm not aware of.

Thanks for making this thread! I'll get the ball rolling:

Akai Katana
180,389,260 - EOJ - ALL [L=1/5, Bx0] - Yaezakura
115,925,220 - EOJ - Stage 5 (Boss) - Kochouran

Zetsu
364,680,601 - EOJ - Stage 6 - Yaezakura
291,067,152 - EOJ - Stage 5 - Kochouran

Akai Katana (Arcade)
76,205,800 - Some Mist - Stage 4 (Boss) - Kochouran

it's the first time I got the stage 4 boss to phase 3 (on my highest score run nonetheless) which totally wrecked me. Now it's time to watch some replays and work on it a bit more. I've only been playing score attack so you'll see me up on the leaderboards at number 69  :-\

First game in ages I've gotten into :) I am still awful, but am looking forwards to improving!

Akai Katana Shin
269,047,240 - fuse - Stage 5 - Kinsenka

It's posted to XBL with a replay too if anyone wants to coach me, heh.

Akai Katana
Yaezakura - 138,012,747 - dan76 - Stage 6 (Boss) - X360

I'm not on live at the moment so this isn't up.

I made the mistake of watching a run on youtube from last year and haven't reached stage 5 since. To busy trying to copy boss scoring tricks... What a game!


(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4171/img0182jg.jpg)

Got my first credits in. Such a cool game. :righton:

Akai Katana - Kochouran
52,606,514 - HVL - Stage 4 - X360

Managed a 1cc after a few days - way harder than I expected, although maybe that was because I went for score straight off the bat. 4th boss was quite the wall for a while.

Akai Katana - Kinsenka
192,692,394 - SPZ - ALL [Lx1/5, Bx2] - X360

I gave the other ships a fair chance, but like in DFK they didn't feel as good as a plain and simple high speed forward shot. :laugh:

Zetsu's next on the list.

Akai Katana Zetsu - Kinsenka
551,768,279 - SPZ - Stage 6

Holy goddamn, this mode is cool. Arcade seems really constricted and limiting after giving this a few serious credits. Getting an instant 1000 hits or so from the stage 6 midboss was a lot of fun. Definitely working on this.

I'll dump it up here for now.

Akai Katana Shin - Kochouran
1,677,021,687 - Icarus - Stage 6 (BOSS)
http://twitpic.com/5aa4ye

Picking at it when I get time free. Looking for around 2.5 - 3.0bil.

Akai Katana
Yaezakura - 208,793,840 - dan76 - All (Lx1/5, Bx2) - X360

(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/5783/img0191vz.jpg)

Got this on my first clear, earlier than expected  - 2.5 is the next goal.

man, I've been working hard at it for the last week, but still no 1CC but my score has somewhat improved
so far I'm at

Akai Katana (Arcade)
129,952,706 - Some Mist - Stage 5 (Boss) - Kochouran

Akai Katana
Yaezakura - 241,337,120 - dan76 - All (Lx0, Bx0) - X360

A messy replay is up on live.

So few score submissions for this great game. :(

Getting back to this, still learning the fundamentals.

Akai Katana - Kochouran
71,100,933 - HVL - Stage 4 - X360

Akai Katana - Kochouran
87,173,686 - HVL - Stage 4 (Boss) - X360

ARCADE
185,408,350 - EOJ - Stage 6 (Boss) - Kinsenka
168,771,250 - EOJ - ALL - Kochouran

I got a 170mil Kinsenka 1CC as well, but the 185mil non clear is higher, so I'll go with that.

Updated (at last). I take it you're still playing on the 360?

Pretty late but that's pretty awesome if EOJ is coming back to shooters. For a while I thought he was retired for some reason.

@HVL: X360 port, not the arcade version.

@TimingTripod: I don't really play competitively for high scores anymore (not enough time, not enough drive/interest), but I do still enjoy getting the 1CCs. :righton: I'm playing with the stock X360 controller on a 19" LCD, which is what I used to get the above two scores.

Akai Katana

Yaezakura - 275,128,654 - dan76 - All (Lx0, Bx0) - X360

Slight improvement - really poor on a couple of stages, surprised I managed this.
Replay is up on live.

Finally started playing this for score yesterday, and it's pretty awesome. I've only learned stages 1 and 2 thus far, I'm going to start on stage 3 tonight. Best so far:

ARCADE
247,520,720 - EOJ - ALL (L=2/5, Bx0) - Yaezakura - X360

Quote from: Cave-STG on April 24, 2012, 08:32:01 PM
Finally started playing this for score yesterday, and it's pretty awesome. I've only learned stages 1 and 2 thus far, I'm going to start on stage 3 tonight. Best so far:

ARCADE
247,520,720 - EOJ - ALL (L=2/5, Bx0) - Yaezakura - X360

Have you ever written a strategy guide for this?

Brent is sending me a super play.

There's some strategy stuff posted here:

http://www.cave-stg.com/forum/index.php?topic=1351.0

But that's about it. There's an excellent 504mil replay on youtube, and the official DVD (by the same guy) is 525mil. Both are helpful to watch.

Quote from: Cave-STG on April 25, 2012, 01:19:17 AM
There's some strategy stuff posted here:

http://www.cave-stg.com/forum/index.php?topic=1351.0

But that's about it. There's an excellent 504mil replay on youtube, and the official DVD (by the same guy) is 525mil. Both are helpful to watch.

Thanks man. I'm gonna start going for score soon.

My 1CC is only 108m

ARCADE
298,175,990 - EOJ - ALL (L=1/5, Bx0) - Yaezakura - X360

ARCADE
310,039,808 - EOJ - ALL (L=3/5, Bx0) - Yaezakura - X360

Going for the western record?

I don't think about "western" records anymore. There's a world record, and that's what I measure my scores by. That's what we should all do.

Right now my score is above average. I'm enjoying improving it.

ARCADE
314,705,340 - EOJ - ALL (L=1/5, Bx2) - Yaezakura - X360

ARCADE
322,418,220 - EOJ - ALL (L=3/5, Bx1) - Yaezakura - X360

Nice to see someone else putting effort into this, hopefully there will be more activity with the NA/EU release. Are you still playing?


Since I'm posting, I might as well put my scores here if you want to add them. I normally don't post here because I don't want to go and bump a bunch of threads for my mostly-mediocre scores. :P

ARCADE
229,926,382 - iconoclast - ALL - Kinsenka - X360
226,105,278 - iconoclast - ALL - Kochouran - X360
369,215,790 - iconoclast - ALL (L=3/5, Bx0) - Yaezakura - X360

One note about my 369m score. I finished with 4 health bars, but my active one had taken [a lot of] damage from lasers. I believe adverse mentioned that a damaged life bar doesn't receive any bonus at the end of the game, so Lx3 would be the correct way to record it, right?

SHIN
2,513,583,324 - iconoclast - ALL - Kinsenka
3,117,198,720 - iconoclast - ALL - Kochouran
2,291,700,693 - iconoclast - ALL - Yaezakura

ZETSU
881,441,947 - iconoclast - ALL - Kinsenka
795,737,397 - iconoclast - ALL - Kochouran
829,889,399 - iconoclast - ALL - Yaezakura

Quote from: eojx9999 on May 02, 2012, 10:46:00 AM
I don't think about "western" records anymore. There's a world record, and that's what I measure my scores by. That's what we should all do.

I also agree with this 100%.

Great scores all around. I'm still playing. I was away for a week on a business trip, but I'll be back at it starting tomorrow. I love this game (only arcade mode though, I don't care for the other modes).

Still inching my way up:

ARCADE
328,907,020 - EOJ - ALL (Lx2, Bx0) - Yaezakura - X360

Quote from: iconoclast on May 12, 2012, 02:30:29 AM
One note about my 369m score. I finished with 4 health bars, but my active one had taken [a lot of] damage from lasers. I believe adverse mentioned that a damaged life bar doesn't receive any bonus at the end of the game, so Lx3 would be the correct way to record it, right?

You should probably list it as "Lx4 (with some damage)". That's how they do it in Arcadia.

ARCADE
340,671,400 - EOJ - ALL [Lx3 (with some damage), Bx1] - Yaezakura - X360

ARCADE
259,880,510 - EOJ - Stage 6 Boss - Kochouran - X360

ARCADE
274,372,383 - EOJ - ALL [Lx1 (with some damage), Bx0] - Kochouran - X360

ZETSU
697,943,299 - EOJ - ALL [Lx1 (with some damage), Bx0] - Kochouran

ZETSU
814,834,031 - EOJ - Stage 7 Boss - Kochouran

I thought I'd help you out, HVL, so I updated all the charts with my recent scores and all of iconoclast's scores.

I just can't get the true hang of this.

Arcade is actually my favorite mode as well.

I thought I liked Shin more, but it's too gimmicky.

Arcade is still tops for me but I like Zetsu too, it feels like a Black Label. Shin feels like a console arrange mode to me, not something I can really click with.

ARCADE
255,393,090 - EOJ - ALL [Lx1, Bx0] - Kinsenka - X360

Nice scores. I liked Zetsu a lot when I first got the game, but I haven't played it since I started working on Arcade mode. I still think Shin is my favorite, but I keep going back to Arcade for whatever reason. Also, I got new score:

ARCADE
301,775,117 - iconoclast - ALL [Lx3 (with some damage), Bx0] - Kinsenka - X360

Maybe it would be easier to list the lives Death Smiles style, to keep it short. Like this run would be Lx2.5. Just a suggestion.

Quote from: eojx9999 on May 22, 2012, 02:04:01 AM
Arcade is still tops for me but I like Zetsu too, it feels like a Black Label. Shin feels like a console arrange mode to me, not something I can really click with.

I've been watching the super play, but really can't grasp the techniques.

Small increase:

ARCADE
344,641,795 - EOJ - ALL [Lx3, Bx1] - Yaezakura -  X360

Arcade
308,612,760 - iconoclast - ALL [Lx4 (with some damage), Bx0] Kochouran - X360

I screwed up stage 4 in this run, but everything else went pretty well. Same thing happened to me with Type A... :-\

ARCADE
350,852,350 - EOJ - ALL [Lx3 (w/ some damage), Bx0] - Yaezakura -  X360

Quote from: eojx9999 on May 20, 2012, 10:32:35 PM
I thought I'd help you out, HVL, so I updated all the charts with my recent scores and all of iconoclast's scores.

Cheers, updated with latest scores.

One more round of scores from me:

ARCADE
424,711,200  - iconoclast - ALL (Lx4, Bx2) - Yaezakura - X360

ZETSU
1,583,536,343 - iconoclast - ALL (Lx3.5, Bx0) - Yaezakura


I'd still like to get better Zetsu scores with Type A and B, and then go back to Shin eventually, but I'm feeling kinda done for now.

A break can always be helpful. After I did my 3 billion Ultra I felt completely burned out and wasn't sure if I'd ever play the game again. After a few months away...

Did this run many years ago, so I can't recall the remaining Life / Bomb anymore  :-[

ARCADE
358,151,625 - -S.L- - ALL (L/B ?) - Yaezakura - PCB

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/905/y16Lv1.jpg)

I've locked this thread and opened a new one here (http://cave-stg.com/forum/index.php?topic=1933.msg34773#msg34773). Let's get some new scores from the recent ports!  :righton: